[geeks] Netbooting a Sun IPC

[Jonathan Katz]

Those only had 10baseT le0 device, right? 

After setting the hostid and MAC does it take when you run banner?

Sent from my mobile device. Please pardon any brevity. 

On Mar 29, 2013, at 6:57 PM, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:

> G'day;
> 
> I pulled out a pair of IPCs that I picked up years ago and thought I'd see
> if they functioned. Lo, they both fire up nicely - one has 24M of RAM, the
> other 16M with a cgthree in one of the sbus slots. I get beautiful crisp
> video on both, and can pop into openboot without issue.
> 
> Alas, both have had their IDPROMs die, so on power on I get the MAC
> address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. I'd like to try and netboot them and chain
> an install (possibly to local disk, possibly to an NFS mount, dunno yet)
> but I'm having trouble getting them to talk to the network, presumably due
> to the fried IDPROM.
> 
> When I attempt to 'boot net' I get:
> Boot device: /sbus/le at 0,c00000 File and args:
> Internal loopback test  Did not receive expected loopback packet.
> Cant open boot device
> 
> I've set the 'diag-switch?' to false, which I thought would skip the
> loopback test, but that doesn't seem to help. I've also followed the
> instructions here (substituting the correct machine type of '52') to set a
> MAC address:
> http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html#GENERAL
> 
> Still, the same 'internal loopback test'. Unfortunately I only have a
> passing famaliarity with Suns (to my shame), so I'm not quite sure what to
> try next.
> 
> Could anyone offer any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> - JP
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